The lack of food enervated him and he couldn't produce the goods when they were required. |
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These women are all HIV positive, and their ability to resist the infection is being undermined by the lack of food. |
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The only animal life that he encountered on the island were a small mongrel dog and a female pig that was a bit thin from lack of food. |
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He argues that famine is not caused by lack of food, but by an increased inability of the poor to afford it. |
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Faced with severe drought, lack of food security is creating conditions of famine. |
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Her face, skeletal from an apparent lack of food, curves thin lips into a wry grin. |
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She would brave bandits, illness, unsanitary, uncomfortable accommodation and even sometimes lack of food in a singleminded pursuit of her goal. |
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The health officer acknowledged that dozens of refugees had fallen sick due to lack of food, medicine, clean water, bedding and sanitation. |
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Cold weather, a lack of food or disturbance can however cause wintering birds to seek new sites. |
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First he went down with malaria, but later on due to lack of food his legs started swelling up. |
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We see how some of these people are starving to death and the lack of food is a very critical part of that. |
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Weakened by fear and lack of food, Malika pulled herself together to cheer up Emil. |
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This has resulted in a severe lack of food for scavengers such as wolves, bears or vultures. |
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These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditions, such as lower water level or lack of food. |
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The scientists at the Bedford Institute, Ken Frank and others, have done great studies, and they now know that it's a lack of food. |
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Farmers in some areas have surplus rice product, while some others suffer annual lack of food. |
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There were also major concerns over the lack of food, clean water and sanitation. |
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Caritas has reported 200 cases of children fainting at school due to lack of food. |
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During Ramadan the lack of food and drink made the stale atmosphere inside the godowns all the more draining. |
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Further, the immune system is weakened by lack of food and malnutrition, which generally makes a person more susceptible to infections. |
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People are starving and children are having lack of food when they are young so they have the consequences for their whole life. |
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A lack of food security, especially among members of some social groups and wealth quintiles, threatens inclusive development. |
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In many parts of the world people suffer from a lack of food and from a shortage of certain micro-nutrients. |
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During a lemming crash, fatigue, intense cold, and especially lack of food take their toll on the population, and many young foxes succumb. |
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Finally, as resources become more depleted, individuals cut back in food quantity to the point where they may not eat at all because of lack of food. |
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The issue is not simply lack of food for the population, but rather the manipulative control of food distribution by those in power. |
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According to Sen, it is not the lack of food in the aggregate that gives rise to famines, but the lack of access to food by the poor in famine regions. |
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Malnutrition in Bhutan was due less to a lack of food than to a poor diet. |
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A United Nations analyst said during an interview on Radio France International that before 2020, we will face the cruel reality of seeing people starving to death in front of our eyes due to a lack of food and water. |
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Early in 894 or 895, lack of food obliged the Danes to retire once more to Essex. |
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The problem in Ireland was not lack of food, which was plentiful, but the price of it, which was beyond the reach of the poor. |
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The situation was exacerbated by the lack of food mainly due to a high rate of spoilage caused by improper stowing. |
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The behavior in the group is aggressive only in situations of stress such as lack of food, but usually it is peaceful. |
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Most kingfishers die of cold or lack of food, and a severe winter can kill a high percentage of the birds. |
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The lack of food security leading to extremely high mortality rate was quite distressing and cause for despair among the colonists. |
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For example, the first definition of starve includes dying of exposure to the elements as well as from lack of food. |
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Others further argue that due to lack of food availability coupled with excessive pollution, developing countries show more evidence of the trap. |
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During the American bombing, the islands' population suffered from lack of food and various injuries. |
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According to a news report by the OHCHR field office in Kinshasa dated 11 December 2006, the Director of the Mbuji-Mayi prison regretted the death of five prisoners due to lack of food and necessary treatment. |
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Muscles would waste away through lack of food, water, and exercise. |
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Others could barely run through lack of food. |
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There are thousands and thousands of displaced persons, a large number of dead, a lack of food and drinking water, and homes and crops have been destroyed. |
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Thousands die every day from lack of food and nutrition. |
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Some people died because of a lack of food or because of illness. |
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Family and friends can be reassured that people nearing death rarely experience hunger, and that the lack of food intake at this time does not affect strength or shorten life. |
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Major causes of death among sea otters are lack of food and predators. |
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Although hunting by humans can now be eliminated as a possible cause, no one really knows what triggered the most recent decline and several Aboriginal groups have paid dearly for the resulting lack of food. |
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The mandate of Welcome Hall Mission is to provide help, hope and compassion to families and individuals of all origins and beliefs, who are suffering from poverty, lack of food, social exclusion and solitude. |
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Still more daunting, with the increasing lack of food and medicine, attacks on humanitarian convoys and disrupted water and electricity supplies, a serious humanitarian crisis is in the making. |
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As pointed out by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, a lack of food security associated with unfavourable climatic conditions or agricultural production crises can be a major cause of armed conflicts. |
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Hans Herren, Millennium Institute, underscored the lack of food security of those most affected by transboundary pests and diseases, and called for better food safety nets. |
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The prison system continued to be characterized by catastrophic conditions of detention, including lack of food, severe overcrowding and lack of medical facilities. |
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School feeding programmes are a way to simultaneously address the lack of food and financial pressures that may lead households to pull their children out of school. |
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This inaccessibility also explains why women bear the consequences of lack of food and epidemics caused by poverty of diseases such as cholera, malaria and dysentery. |
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The lack of food, water, shelter and other necessities at the militia encampment sites created disenchantment among the militiamen and many left the camps after a few weeks. |
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To allow a population to keep on growing would lead to the destruction of the forest cover and the degeneration or disappearance of the population through epizootic diseases and lack of food. |
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Those who arrive in refugee camps might be sick or malnourished, and their health problems can be exacerbated by the difficult living conditions found there-such as a lack of food, adequate sanitation or drinking water. |
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Avitaminosis was also an issue because of the lack of food. |
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Hunger and malnutrition therefore are not due to lack of food alone, but are also the consequences of poverty, inequality and misplaced priorities. |
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Because hanging baskets and container gardens are in a contained growing environment, they are more susceptible to lack of food, excessive heat and lack of water. |
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The prevalence of marasmus is also referred to as acute malnutrition and is expressed through a recent loss of weight as a result of severe illness or lack of food. |
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The dangers that await us no longer come in the form of a woolly mammoth or a lack of food, but more from stress, or pollution and conflicts of all sorts. |
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Many of the interviewees reported chronic health problems brought on by a lack of food, and had coped with hunger by eating grass, tree bark and roots. |
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In addition to lack of water, the millions of birds migrating along the Pacific flyway will suffer for lack of food, and many will starve. |
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But, we're really grappling with the problem of the lack of food and the role that fisheries play in causing the collapse of, for example, African penguin populations. |
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Lack of food would force the disbandment of any large Welsh force besieged within the mountains. |
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